Bowl hanger



July 5, 1938. H, s rn- I 2,122,730

A BOWL HANGER Filed July 9, 1937 I 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 j fiwl, 4%

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5uly 5, 1938. H A M H 2,122,730

BOWL HANGER Filed July 9, 1957 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 1211. Smith IN VEN TOR.

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July 5, 1938. H. A. SMITH 2,122,730

BOWL HANGER Filed July 9, 1937 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 JNVENTOR.

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Patented July 5, '1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 7 Claims.

This invention aims to provide novel means for supporting a water closet bowl and for connecting with the closet bowl the necessary outlet and the inlet for the flushing water, novel means being provided whereby the device may be adapted readily to bowls of different kinds.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the present invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 shows in vertical section a device constructed in accordance with the invention;

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section;

Fig. 3 is a rear elevation wherein parts are sectioned away;

Fig. 4 is a vertical section, parts appearing in elevation;

Fig. 5 is a. sectional view showing one of the supports and attendant parts.

In carrying out the invention there is provided a box-like casing I adapted to be mounted in and secured as indicated at 2 to a. wall 3 having a facing 4.

A water closet bowl 5 abuts against the facing 4 and has an outlet tube 6. There is an opening 1 in the front wall of the casing I, and there is an opening 8 in the rear wall 9 of the casing I.

At its lower end, the casing I is provided with a rearwardly prolonged extension III to the outer end of which is secured detachably a closure I I having a curved balile I2 which tends to direct material from the closet bowl 5 downwardly into an outlet pipe I4 connected to the lower part of the extension II].

A sleeve I5 is threaded into the rear wall 9 of the casing I and is held therein by a gland I6. The forward end of the sleeve I5 receives the rear end of the outlet tube 6 of the water closet bowl 5, a gasket I! being interposed between the parts I5 and 6.

The upper part of the extension laterally projecting neck I9 is connected.

Lower securing elements, such as bolts 20, are mounted in openings 2I in the rear wall of the I0 carries 2. I8 to which a vent pipe closet bowl 5 and are held therein by nuts 22. The securing elements 20 pass backwardly through vertically elongated slots 23 in the rear wall 9 of the casing I, the bolts or securing elements 20 being attached to the rear wall 9 by nuts 24.

Upper securing elements, such as bolts 25, are provided and are mounted in openings 26 in the rear wall of the closet bowl 5, the securing elements or bolts 25 being connected by nuts 21 to the closet bowl. The bolts 25 extend through vertically elongated slots 28 in the rear wall 9 of the casing I and are held thereon by nuts 29.

The casing I has lower lugs 30 and upper lugs 3|, which project inwardly, as shown in Fig. 3, The lugs 30 and 3| have openings in their upper ends, as shown at 32 in Fig. 4.

Supports 33, in the form of bolts or jack means are provided. The lower ends of the supports 33 are received in the lugs 30 and 3|. Nuts 34 are threaded on the supports or bolts 33 and rest on the lugs 30 and 3|. At their upper ends, the supports 33 have heads 35 rotatably received in grooves 36 formed in brackets 31 having openings 38 which receive the bolts 20 and 25.

By means of the bolts 25 and the nuts 29, a carrier bar 39 is secured against the rear wall 9 of the casing I, as shown in Fig. 3. The carrier 39 supports a conduit 40 in the form of an inlet pipe for flushing water, the pipe 40 being attached as shown at 4| to the bowl 5 and discharging into the bowl.

It will be observed that the supports 33 and the brackets 31, cooperating with the upper and lower securing elements 25 and 20, respectively, aid in carrying the weight of the closet bowl 5. The openings 25 and 2I in the closet bowl may not always be located precisely as shown in the drawings, and, then, the nuts 34 on the supports 33 may be threaded up and down until the securing elements 25 and 20 cooperate, respectively, with the openings 26 and 2 I. The upper securing elements 25 not only aid in supporting the closet bowl 5, but, also, they serve as a mounting for the carrier bar 39 with which the conduit 40 for flushing water is assembled.

The device is simple in construction, but it will be found thoroughly effective and efiicient in mounting a closet bowl in place and in providing the necessary connections with the closet bowl, under a variety of conveniences.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is:

1. In a device of the class described, a box-like openings 32 of the casing including front and rear walls, the front wall having an opening, substantially horizontal securing elements extended across the casing and through the opening, means for mounting the securing elements in the rear wall of the casing for vertical adjustment, jack means located with= in the casing and connected to the securing elements and the casing for producing relative ver tical movement between the securing elements and the casing, and means for attaching the securing elements to a closet bowl.

2. In a device of the class described, a box-like casing including front and rear walls, the front substantially horizon across the'casfor mountwall of the wall having an opening, tal securing elements extended ing and through the opening, means ing the securing elements in the rear casing for vertical adjustment, jack means 10- cated within the casing and connected to the securing elements and the ative vertical movement between the securing elements, and the casing, means for attaching the securing elements to a closet bowl, a carrier connected to the rear wall of the casing by the securing elements, and a flush pipe mounted on the carrier and extended through the opening and discharging into the bowl.

3. In a device of the class described, a casing, substantially horizontal securing elements extended across the casing, means for mounting the securing elements in thecasing for vertical adjustment, brackets receiving the securing elements, supports connected to the brackets, members adjustable along the supports and engaging the casing toraise and lower the supports, the brackets and the securing elements, and means for attaching the-securing elements to a closet bowl. r

4. In a device of the class described, a'casing, substantially horizontal securing elements extended across the casing, meansfor mounting the securing elements in the casing for vertical adcasing for producing 'reljustment, means connected to the securing elements and the casing for adjusting the securing elements vertically, means for attaching the securing elements to a closet bowl; the casing being provided with an extension having an outlet, a substantially horizontal sleeve extended across the casing, the sleeve being provided at its forward end with means for cormecting the sleeve to the outlet of a closet bowl, the sleeve discharging into the extension, and means for mounting the sleeve in the rear wall of the easing for horizontal adjustment.

5. A device of the class described, constructed as set forth in claim 4, in combination with a closure attached to the extension, the closure having a curved bafile so located as to receive flow from the sleeve and so shaped as to discharge the flow downwardly intothe outlet of the extension.

-6.-A device of the class described, constructed as set forth in claim 4, and further characterized bythe provision of a laterally and upwardly extended neck on the extension, the neck having means for connection with a vent pipe.

7. In a device of the class described, a casing,

means for securing the casing to a closet bowl;

the casing having a rearward extension, a sleeve communicating with the extension, the sleeve'being provided at its forward end with means for connecting the sleeve to the outlet of a closet bowl, means for mounting the sleeve for substantially horizontal adjustment in the rear wall of the casing, an outlet in the lower part of the extension, aclos'ure secured to the extension and having a curved bafille receiving flow from the sleeve and directing the'flow downwardly into the outlet, and

a laterally and upwardljextended neck carried by the extension and communicating therewith, the neck being provided with means'for connecting it to a vent pipe.

HARRY A. SMITH. 

